Numerics, NaNs, IEEE 754 and C99

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-06-15, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> Firstly, a FAR more common assumption is that integers wrap in twos'
>>> complement - Python does not do that.
>> 
>> It used to
>
> for integers ?  what version was that ?

Am I remebering incorrectly?  Didn't the old fixed-width
integers operate modulo-wordsize?  I distinctly remember having
to rewrite a bunch of checksum code when fixed-width integers
went away.

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